Setting of Diagon Alley

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 4366

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Scott wrote:
> 
> > Now I'm not the smartest w/ Architecture but I believe that what I
> > described would be Elizabethen, right?  Well I'm interested to see
> > how other people picture DA?
> 
> I've only been in England once, on our way home from our honeymoon 
in
> Poland, and we drove up to York from London and then back (had a 
quest to
> fulfill, long off-topic romantic story, etc.) Anyway, I picture 
Diagon Alley
> like those little streets full of shops in York, where the upper 
storeys
> hang out over the lower, and each building looks different than the 
one next
> to it, but they're all stuck together anyway, and they've sagged 
from age,
> and there's lots of half-timbers and stuff.
> 



Has anyone ever been in Lindos on the island of Rhodes in Greece..
I subconsciously have been imagining Dragon Alley as like the old 
city...cobblestones, just pedestrians, small shops, winding....
not overhangs..but signs...perhaps on the order of the tavern in the
Scarlet Pimpernel.....stores very close to each other..the outdoor 
cafe...

I'd like to go there.....

> How zat? By the way, Simon, I love your posts but curse your name, 
because
> these places you mention so casually going by are names in books to 
me,
> impossibly faraway and hard to imagine as real places where dogs 
wander and
> pigeons poop. Sigh. I wanna go back to England. Or Poland--Krakow 
was
> awesome.
> 
> --Amanda